Apple Music crashing since updating to iOS 16.4

It seems to be a problem with any smart playlist that changes when a song is played. I use playlists based on the least recently played songs. Apple Music will play the first song, and sometime during the middle of the second song, it will try to update the library database and crash. Not only that, loading one of these playlists takes 30 seconds to a minute.

Regular playlists and smart playlists that do not change the play order work just fine, no matter how many songs.

Please fix this Apple, it’s hard to believe things like this make it through testing…

I’m seeing this behavior when playing Smart Playlists with Live Updating. For example, when playing a playlist with the theme of “Unplayed This Year”, the playback freezes a few seconds into the next song after each song finishes playing. Since the Live Updating would remove the song from the playlist that has just finished playing, since it no longer matches the rules of Unplayed this Year, it results in the playback freezing and stopping.

I discovered the problem while trying to play a playlist that is exactly like the one you mentioned. I switched to a playlist that had 331 songs in it and the problem went away. However, Apple still needs to fix this because I've been using that "not played in 12 months" playlist for years and the problem cropped up only after upgrading to 14.6.

Apple Music doesn’t clear the cache. It’s a bug with the JavaScript code that downloads songs from the server. The smaller your device’s SSD is, the more it will crash (e.g. 128 GB iPhone SE). It’s less noticeable on 1TB iPhones, which is why some people say it works fine.

You have to manually delete the app and that will clear the cache. It might free up 30GB, depending on how much data/music you consume.

However, deleting the app may delete your playlists.

So, I would export all playlists from Apple Music on a Mac, to make an archive, and then delete Apple Music on your iPhone to free up 30GB. It will behave normally until your iPhone runs out of space (again).

I hope that makes sense.

Same for me. Not seeing any issues so far with Music app in 16.4.1.

This is my scenario on 16.4.1 with music stored locally on the phone:

1. click either Songs or Albums
2. click Shuffle
3. song starts playing but all buttons become unresponsive. Playback stops about 20 seconds later (guessing, I didn’t time it) and app crashes.

This is NOT occurring when shuffling within a playlist, individual artist, or single album. It is only happening when shuffling the entire library via Songs or Albums. I have not added or removed anything from the library since prior to the 16.4.1 update, and it was working then, so it seems reasonable to conclude the issue was introduced with 16.4.1 (or possibly 16.4, I don’t remember if I used an all library shuffle while on that version, but I definitely did on 16.3.x and prior with no issues). I don’t remember the exact song count but I think it’s somewhere in the 10k-12k range.

The problem I was having, app crashing after I delete a song, seems to be fixed with 16.4.1

I get this on HomePods. All updated and when playing a station. The ones where you pick an artist and select “Create station”.

plays for an hour or two and then all speakers just stop. Open my phone and the all is dead and if I ask Siri to resume she doesn’t and just starts playing my station.

Not tried with a downloaded playlist

16.4.1 seems to improve music a little bit, however, Bluetooth still crashes constantly with my car stereo.

16.5 has done absolutely nothing to improve on 16.4.1.

I completely reset my network settings, erased, and repaired all my Bluetooth devices, and even completely restored my iPhone from my back up… nothing fixes the Bluetooth problem.

16.x will go down as being one of the worst iOS versions next to 8.0.1 bricking phones…

Yeah, there is still a huge Bluetooth problem with iOS 16.5.1. Ever since 16.4, Bluetooth has been unreliable. Randomly disconnecting from my car, having problems reconnecting. Sometimes when it reconnect, it will play the song for a second, cut out for a second, play again, cut out again. Usually about 10 or 12 times before the song actually stays playing. I took my laptop out to the car, Bluetooth ran perfectly on it…. iOS 16.x.x sucks! I hope to God 17 fixes this crap

Seems to be resolved with latest update

If I am playing a song that’s in my library and I go to delete said song from the library while it’s playing (which would normally just have the music skip to the next song upon doing so), the app freezes and crashes. Every time. This is a real problem for me right now. :/

This is really messed up. My problem has nothing to do with playlists. In fact playlists worked fine. I had downloaded about 9,000 songs. Play them on shuffle, delete a download and the app freezes then quits. So I deleted every download and tried again just streaming the song. Same thing, if I delete a song the app freezes then crashes.